Nigeria, March 27 -- Fateemah Salisu-Ahmed had been awake for most of the night in May 2025, pacing around the small room where her five-month-old triplets lay. Two of the babies had stopped eating, their tiny bodies burning with fever, their cries growing weaker.

In the morning, the 31-year-old mother wrapped the children in shawls and hurried with her husband, Salisu Ahmed, to the nearest primary healthcare centre in Kugbo, in the Karu area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

However, they were told that the facility did not have what the children needed.

"We were referred to another hospital, but we could not go there that day. Instead, we went back home to buy drugs from the chemist. But there was no improvement, especially fo...